Oulu - urban city with an exotic arctic setting

Olli Löytynoja: Head of Key Account and Investments Unit

Heidi Tikanmäki: Key Account Director of Life Science

Petri Karinen: Head of International Affairs

65°01‘N, 25°28’E

#1 in R&D investment per capita in Finland, among the top in the EU

Fastest growing city in Northern Europe

Hi-tech hotbed

450 ICT companies and 640 Health and Life Science companies

18 500 high-tech jobs, +8000 R&D experts

>500 new startup companies during the last 3 years

Youngest in Europe - 37.9 average age

35% with university degree

40 000 students (Universities and vocational schools)

#2 in Finnish airport traffic, with 100 flights a week

Oulu Deep Sea Port

Oulu, City region of 250 000 people

* European commission,

Quality of Life in European

Cities 2015.

IT'S NOT ABOUT TECHNOLOGY

It's how people use it to improve

the place called home

BusinessOulu – A Partner and Enabler

of Growth

Investments

& new jobs

Oulu marketing

Company

growth services

New businesses

Fostering

entrepreneurship

The Light of the North

Vision and values Courage

Fairness

Responsibility

Strong

basic industry

PCMag's Sascha Segan

visited Oulu in June 2017. Now PCMag September digital edition's

cover features Oulu as the city of 5G.

How a small city

in Finland Turned

Into a 5G Pioneer

2.6billion people use wireless

technologies developed in Oulu

Oulu Leads 5G Development

Cover

9/2017

3-4B€ worth of exports per year

Over 500 companies making

wireless core products

”I think Oulu is the world’s

best place, second to

none,

for radio access

engineering”

Rajeev Suri, CEO, NOKIA

Maintain leadership via renewal

”Remarkable part of

world’s wireless

communication is

based on technology

developed in Oulu” (translated)

Juha Sipilä, Prime Minister, Finland

Oulu hosts national ecosystem of over 1000 ICT companies

Oulu 6G Research

KickOff

University of Oulu to begin groundbreaking 6G research

as part of Academy of Finland’s flagship programme.

Professor Matti Latva-aho is the director for the ambitious

eight year research.

“Our research will combine several

challenging research areas including

reliable near-instant unlimited wireless

connectivity, distributed computing and

intelligence, as well as materials and

antennas at very high frequencies to be

utilized in future for circuits and devices.

These will enable drastically new types of

services and applications pushing

wireless networks to ultimate limits.”

Academy Professor

Matti Latva-aho

Haltian

Ginolis

Koukoi Games

Fingersoft

Harman

TactoTec

Polar

Bittium

Continental

Nordea

CGI

Tieto

Anite Nordic Semiconductor

Mediatek

Sony/ Altair

Texas Instruments Spreadtrum

Vaimo

Yota Devices

Solita

Bitfactor

F-Secure

ARM

Tosibox

Verkotan

ROHM Semiconductor

Nokia Siili Solutions

IndoorAtlas Koodiviidakko

OP-Pohjola

Fujitsu

Exfo

Eyelife

“By opening our

new office in Oulu,

we hope to be an attractive

employer to some of the

most seasoned engineers

and the brightest graduating

engineers from local

universities.”

JS Pan

Deputy General Manager

MediaTek

”I think Oulu is the

world’s best place,

second to none, for

radio access

engineering.”

Rajeev Suri

CEO, Nokia

photo: www.nokia.com

Hill Climb Racing by Fingersoft

Polar Heart Rate Monitors

Bittium Tough Phone Secure and Strong LTE Smartphone

AavaMobile Rugged Tablets for Verticals

KNL Networks Keeping You Online. Always.

IndoorAtlas Making Indoor Worlds Discoverable

UROS Bringing the I to IoT worldwide

TactoTek Smart Molded Structures

Oulu is

one of the youngest cities in Europe

An atmosphere that

encourages innovation

High education level –

every third person in Oulu has

a university degree.

A great foundation

for building the future! University of Oulu and University of Applied Sciences:

about 25,000 students

Future

visions

Raatti Maritime setting Kiikeli

An oasis for local residents

Housing Fair 2025

Linnanmaa Innovation Campus

Hupisaaret A meeting place for

local residents

Collaboration

Educational and

research institutions

Businesses Public

sector

C E N T E R O F N O R T H E R N

A R C H I T E C T U R E

1 1 5 A R C H I T E C T O F F I C E S

# 1 I N F I N L A N D I N S C H O O L A N D H O S P I T A L D E S I G N

N O V E L U S E R D R I V E N M E T H O D S I N 3 D E N V I R O N M E N T S

D E V E L O P M E N T O F B I M - T O O L S

www.alt-architects.com

G A M E C A M P U S O U L U

A C E N T R A L C I T Y B L O C K D E V O T E D T O G A M I N G I N D U S T R Y

B U S I N E S S M E E T S E D U C A T I O N I N A U N I Q U E D E V E L O P M E N T H U B

Towards

the European

Capital of Culture 2026

CONNECTING

HEALTH

OuluHealth ecosystem - stakeholders

600+ Health

Businesses

University of

Oulu &

Polytechnic,

VTT

University

Hospital

City of Oulu: Health & Social

Care,

Economic

Development

200 000

inhabitants

Oamk SimLab OYS TestLab

Oulu

WelfareLab

OULUHEALTH – OFFERING (services for companies))

Tailored support:

Business development

services

Unique piloting

platform:

OuluHealth Labs

Company cooperation

New products and services are introduced:

• faster

• more cost-efficiently

• with the use of the latest technologies

Company’s growth,

competitiveness and

pioneering potential

Cutting edge know-how:

Health ICT - Centre of

Excellence (R&D)

HILLA Growth Mill

PREVENTION OF

DISEASE

HOSPITALS &

HOMECARE

PERSONALIZED

HEALTHCARE

INKA National

coordination of

future health

Digital Health Revolution National coordination of seven

universities collaboration in digital

health

5G/6G Wireless communication

flagship

EU connectivity

Enabling expertise

Wireless communication Machine learning (AI) Medical imaging

Population health research

(NFBC)

DigiHealth HUB in Oulu

EU mHealth Hub (WHO & ITU)

Ecosystem bid to host

European mHealth Hub

European Connected

Health Alliance Founding Partner

OuluHealth Labs Innovation platforms

Biomedical and clinical research

WELCOME TO OULU

• Forerunner in digital health

• Most advanced patient data

integration system

N˚1 in

• One of the leading health

technology hubs in the world

• First 5G hospital

• First 6G research center

BUSINESSOULU

INTERNATIONALIZATION

SERVICES

BusinessOulu-Internationalization

services

• Participating and organizing business delegations on exhibitions, conferences, seminars, B2B meetings, matchmaking events with the Companies

• Monitoring of the purchasing/tender plans and assisting in preparation of the offers and bids together with the Companies

• Identifying the partners for the companies

• Facilitate business, technical and other types of collaborations;

• Pre-market researches by request of companies

• Finnish Business Hub services (Sweden, Norway, Russian and Kazakhstan)

© BUSINESSOULU 2012,

WWW.BUSINESSOULU.COM

Global Network

Astana*

Almaty

EUROPE

Germany:

Stuttgart,

Tuttlingen,

Munchen,

Leverkusen

Ulm*

Kaiserslautern

Toronto

St Cathrines

Moncton

Brazil

OULU

WWW.BUSINESSOULU.COM

St. Petersburg

Moscow

Murmansk

Bursa

Istanbul

Ankara

Tel Aviv

Luleå

Hammerfest

Boden

Kiiruna

Tromssö*

Trondheim

Jällivaara

Göteborg

Stockholm Sendai

Fujisawa

Kanagawa

San Jose

San Diego

New York

Minneapolis

Hangzhou

Nangjing

€

197bn

By the end

of 2025:

Investments

totalling

in Northern

Scandinavia

and

the Barents

Region

OULU HAS A KEY ROLE in investments

and economic

growth in the

North

Arctic Europe is... • Co-operation network that consists of cities, regions, business, innovation

and research actors from the regions of Northern Norway,

Northern Sweden and Northern Finland.

• Conversation forum within the region of Arctic Europe

• Joint operations are launched case by case and based on a clear need

• Co-working platform which is built on synergies andcbased on values of trust,

respect and openness

• Brand for the Arctic region

• A strong voice within the Arctic policy

All work is based on existing organisations,

partnerships and collaborations

Welcome

to Oulu!